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Small border distance but 20 hours ahead Time Difference The 19th century was an era of standardization. As railways were connecting whole landmasses, countries were supplanting nearby occasions with an arrangement of hour-wide time regions. As sea navigation became more common, and since there was no common time agreed, sailors faced a lot of difficulties. As a result, many countries decided to standardize on a system of navigation and maps. They all came together and met in Washington DC for the International Meridian Conference to accept on standard time. There were 41 delegates from 25 countries who attended the International Meridian Conference. Many countries including the US, even before the Conference started using Greenwich as the basis for their time zone system. Additionally, 72% of the world's trade at the time relied upon ocean graphs, which had just embraced Greenwich as the prime meridian. So, countries just adopted the British standard time as an official at the Mer...

maximum time difference Earth's largest time difference: Time Zone may be used to refer to the local time of a country or a region. Time zones in the world are obtained from the UTC. If each time zone were 1 hour apart, there would be 24 time zones in the world. The clocks throughout the World are not adjusted for Daylight savings as all are under the regulation of a Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).  UTC is 0 hours which means any area on the Earth can only be ahead (+) or behind (-) the UTC. We know that there are 24 hours in a day, so we may think that the biggest time difference between two points on the earth would only be 24 hours. But, according to the standard time (UTC) which we follow, the biggest time difference is 26 hours. The reason behind this is because of the man-made imaginary International Date Line (IDL) which was agreed in 1884 at the International Meridian Conference (IMC). The IDL serves as the "line of demarcation" between two consecutive calendar ...